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RIO VOUGA gunboat (1882)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Rio Vouga     Arsenal da Marinha, Lisboa   5.1.1882 1882 discarded 1909
  

Displacement normal, t

710

Displacement full, t

721

Length, m

49.1 pp

Breadth, m

8.41

Draught, m

3.61

No of shafts

1

Machinery

 

Power, h. p.

600

Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t

coal 100
Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 152/26 A.15/28, 4 x 1 - 100/27 A.10/28

Complement

121

Project history: Iron-hulled wooden-sheathed colonial gunboat.

Modernizations: 1890s: - 1 x 1 - 152/26, 4 x 1 - 100/27; + 2 x 1 - 47/40 H.(tr)47/43

Naval service: No significant events.

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